Preparing for Christmas by Richard Rohr Daily Meditations for Advent

“Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus”—Richard Rohr

Advent is a time to focus our expectation and anticipation on “the adult Christ, the Cosmic Christ,” who challenges us to empty ourselves, to lose ourselves, to surrender. Preparing for Christmas offers daily meditations, prayers, Scripture readings, and questions for reflection for each day of Advent.

Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986, where he presently serves as Founding Director. An internationally known speaker to many thousands of people a year, Richard’s travels have recently taken him to Europe and Australia/New Zealand. Teaching on such themes as adult Christian spirituality, men’s spirituality, and politics and spirituality, Richard has partnered with such esteemed teachers as Thomas Keating (author of books on centering prayer), Diana Butler Bass (author of Christianity for the Rest of Us), Ronald Rolheiser (author of the best-selling The Holy Longing), Joan Chittister (author of The Gift of Years), Phyllis Tickle (author of The Great Emergence), and Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and authors of bestsellers such as God’s Politics.